Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Now, you could say you would only use numbers on people who are dying or causing the party to wipe or hit enrage, but if the numbers are readily available, others might not stick to those cases.
From my time in WoW I can tell you that there are definitely players out there who do not use parsers to only point out actual problems. Some use them as an excuse to gloat or needlessly put someone down. I have legit seen someone complain at a player because they were doing slightly less dps than they should have been with the gear they had...while in a dungeon that was a faceroll -_- For some people there doesn't even need to be a problem for them to speak up, they just do so to show off their supposed superior knowledge or performance.

Parsers are excellent tools but as the saying goes "this is why we can't have nice things". Enough people do misuse them for SE to not want to make them easily available to players. I don't think we'll ever get an official parser until the community can prove to SE that parser related toxicity would be extremely rare...and well considering some of the things I have seen in these forums and when I have pugged above normal mode, this is not yet the case. I don't think it ever will be to be honest. Tryhards are gonna tryhard.

However the bar is so low in normal mode they're just not required there. You would need a spectacularly bad group to fail normal mode due to dps issues. And OP is talking about toxicity in casual content. Which I'm still confused about because I rarely see that in casual content. Still not sure if they're playing the same game as I am.